Archive for the ‘Art’ Category

Vasteras bicycle tour

March 12th, 2010 at 11:37 pm » Comments (4)

At the big town square in the Swedish town Västerås, right in front of the City Hotel “Stadshotellet”, there is a sculpture of workers on bicycles on their way to work. It’s also a great hint of how this town should be explored best by the tourists.

The sculpture was created by the artist B G [...]


Hotel Woodpecker Unusual Treehouse Suite

February 27th, 2010 at 10:34 pm » Comments (8)

There is some very creative hotels even in Sweden and we did a roadtrip to one of them a couple of weeks ago: Hotell Hackspett or in English Hotel Woodpecker, about 40 feet up in an old oak tree in one of the parks in Västerås.

This is a very traditional Swedish red cottage, just placed [...]


French Art Gallery Exhibition

December 29th, 2009 at 10:24 pm » Comments (7)

While we were in Provence, France, in August, we were lucky enough to have the right date timing for a local art exhibition that was held in the town, which Claudie and her sister were kind enough to invite us to come along to.
Ollioules Mayor, Robert Beneventi - which we had the pleasure of [...]